Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library.
Archives and Special Collections.

San Francisco, California 94143-0840

Abstract: This collection is a continuation of the Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Records (MSS 94-29), and covers the period of 1980-1996.
The materials in the collection document anti-smoking activities on a national and international scale, focusing primarily
on legislation and litigation, although it also includes some program materials relating to California Proposition 99-funded
educational projects.

Physical location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Language:
English.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Library & Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Archives & Special Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Library & Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

The Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Records, Addendum (ANR-2) were given to the Tobacco Control Archives by Americans for
Nonsmokers' Rights in increments during 1996-97.

Organizational History

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR) was established in 1976 as the Group Against Smoking Pollution (GASP) when several
local GASP chapters across California merged and incorporated. In 1981 California GASP became Californians for Nonsmokers'
Rights (CNR). CNR went national in 1986 and became ANR. ANR advocates the rights of nonsmokers. It has been involved in political
campaigns in California for Propositions 5 (1977-1978), 10 (1979-1980), and 99 (1986), and against Proposition 188 (1994).
ANR has put nonsmokers' rights on the national agenda, by working to ban smoking on airline flights, and upholding the Environmental
Protection Agency's risk assessment of secondhand smoke as a carcinogen. ANR works with cities and counties to enact local
ordinances to protect nonsmokers on the job, in restaurants and public places, and on public transportation. ANR has established
a National Resource Center to provide information and technical assistance to government agencies, local advocates and the
media. ANR's mission, history, and programs are described on their Web site at
http://www.no-smoke.org/ .

Scope and Content of Collection

This collection, which is a continuation of the Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Records --MSS 94-29 (1974-1994, bulk dates
1978-86), covers the period of 1980-1996 with the bulk of the materials from 1989-96. The materials in the collection document
anti-smoking activities on a national and international scale, focusing primarily on legislation and litigation, although
it also includes some program materials relating to California Proposition 99-funded educational projects. The collection
includes clippings, correspondence, educational and promotional materials, petitions, legal documents, videotapes, and one
reel of motion picture film. (The videotapes and the film were removed to the Tobacco Control Archives Videotape Collection,
MSS 2000-28.) The materials in this collection fall into three overlapping series. The first series, Adminstrative Files,
includes a wide variety of materials including correspondence, newsletters, petitions, legal documents, and program materials.
The second series, Subject Files, comprises material from ANR's "Master File" of reference materials and is primarily made
up of clippings and other ephemera. The third series, Media, contains tobacco control magazines and newsletters (
Tobacco Observer,
In Time), videotapes, audio tapes and a copy of the film, "Death in the West." A large quantity of printed books and monographs were
included in the donation; a few significant books included in the collection.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights

California Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation

Californians for Nonsmokers' Rights

Group Against Smoking Pollution

Tobacco habit--Education--United States

Smoking--Law and Legislation

Tobacco Smoke Pollution

Work environment

Related Collections

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (MSS 94-29)

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Curriculum Materials (MSS 2001-09)

Tobacco Control Archives Videotape Collection (MSS 2000-28)

Separated Materials

The following items were removed to the TCA video collection, MSS 2000-28:

Collection Contents

Series 1,
Administrative Files,
1981-96,

Physical Description:
Cartons 1-3

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of files arranged alphabetically by subject illustrating ANR's legislative and other interests. It also
includes historical clippings about ANR and correspondence requesting information on projects or on ANR's two videos "Death
in the West" and "Second Hand Smoke."

Arrangement

Major subdivisions include:

1. Legislation, which includes information on California smoking/tobacco legislation focusing primarily on Proposition 99
challenges and reauthorization, local (San Francisco) legislation, national legislation, and legislation in other states (arranged
alphabetically by state).

2. Lawsuits, which include information on a variety of legal actions around smoking including smoking liability suits, nonsmokers
rights, children's television, and ADA challenges.

3. Newsletters, which contain scattered issues of newsletters from a number of anti-smoking organizations. These are organized
as follows: national organizations first, then by state, international organizations, then by region and country within region.

The final section includes program materials and materials regarding other groups and miscellaneous issues.

This series is made up of clippings and other reference materials that were maintained by ANR staff as their "Master File."
ANR staff have assigned three-letter subject codes, and in some cases, additional subheadings to each document.

Arrangement

The first folder contains a master list of all the subject codes and subheadings. Most subheadings are not broken out or arranged,
though in a few specific instances some subheadings have been identified in folder names.

The largest subject categories represented include:

1. Advertising (10 folders)

2. Non-smoking Groups (18 folders)

3. Tobacco Industry and Cigarette Companies (5 folders).

Not all categories mentioned in the master list are represented by materials in this collection.

Box-folder 3:21

Master Files Folders Listing -- abbreviations,
n.d.

Box-folder 3:22-29

ADV (Advertising and Promotion)

Box-folder 3:30-31

ADV-Youth

Box-folder 3:32

AGN (Agencies)

Box-folder 4:1

CES (Cessation, Smoking)

Box-folder 4:2

CNS (Consumption and Smoking Rates of Tobacco Products)

Box-folder 4:3-4

ECN (Economics)

Box-folder 4:5-7

ENV (Environmental Issues and Tobacco)

Box-folder 4:8

ETH (Ethical Issues)

Box-folder 4:9

ETN (Ethnic Networks)

Box-folder 4:10

ETQ (Etiquette, Smoking)

Box-folder 4:11

FRS (Fires -- Cigarette Related)

Box-folder 4:12-13

HLT (Health Hazards and Issues (Primary Smoke)

Box-folder 4:14

INT (International Issues)

Box-folder 4:15

LEG (Legislation, Smoking Regulations and Ordinances)

Box-folder 4:16

LGL (Legal)

Box-folder 4:17-34

NSG (Nonsmoking Groups)

Box-folder 4:17

NSG (Nonsmoking Groups)

Box-folder 4:18

Activist Strategies

Box-folder 4:19

Directories

Box-folder 4:20-34

NSG: Groups By States

Box-folder 4:20

AR, AZ

Box-folder 4:21

CA, CO

Box-folder 4:22

DC, DE

Box-folder 4:23

FL

Box-folder 4:24

GA

Box-folder 4:25

HI

Box-folder 4:26

IL

Box-folder 4:27

KS

Box-folder 4:28

MA, MD, MI, MN, MO

Box-folder 4:29

NE, NJ, NM, NY, NV

Box-folder 4:30

OH, OK

Box-folder 4:31

PA

Box-folder 4:32

TX

Box-folder 4:33

VA

Box-folder 4:34

WA, WV

Box-folder 4:35-37

PPL (People, Important to ANR)

Box-folder 4:35

PPL (People, Important to ANR)

Box-folder 4:36

Koop (C. Everett Koop)

Box-folder 4:37

Patrick Reynolds

Box-folder 4:38

PSP (Polls, Surveys and Public Opinion)

Box-folder 4:39-40

RST (Restaurants, Smoking in)

Box-folder 4:41

SKR (Smokers' Rights)

Box-folder 4:42

SOC (Social Acceptability of Smoking)

Box-folder 4:43

TAX

Box-folder 4:44-46, 5:1-2

TIC (Tobacco Industry and Cigarette Companies)

Box-folder 5:3-4

TOB (Tobacco Products)

Box-folder 5:5

TRT (Travel and Transportation)

Box-folder 5:6

WMN (Women and Tobacco)

Box-folder 5:7-8

WRK (Workplace, Smoking in the)

Box-folder 5:9-10

YTH (Youth and Tobacco)

Series 3.
Media,
1941-87

Physical Description:
Carton 5:11-17; Box 6 (oversize)

Scope and Content Note

This series contains tobacco control magazines and newsletters (
Tobacco Observer,
In Time), videotapes, a copy of the film, "Death in the West", and copies of 3 books published by ANR. The videotapes and the film
were removed to the Tobacco Control Archives Videotape Collection, MSS 2000-28.